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Quotes from Requiem for the Living — Cecil Day-Lewis

1904–1972 Ireland

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I have had worse partings, but none that so
Gnaws at my mind still. Perhaps it is roughly
Saying what God alone could perfectly show —
How selfhood begins with a walking away,
And love is proved in the letting go.

Requiem for the Living (1964)

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Quotes and notes from Wikiquote: Cecil Day-Lewis (page history), available under CC BY-SA 4.0.